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Tho republican national commit
teo adopVbd a reorganization plan to
bo submitted to tho republican states
providing for a change of representa
tion In the national convention. The
southorn quota Is reduced from 33
per cont to 1G per cent of the con
vention's total.
Speaker Champ Clark took, the
floor of the house December .1 8 o re
ply to a speech by Representative
Mann, tho republican leador In the
houso, In which Mr. Mann asserted
that tho now tariff act had precipi
tated a financial and industrial panic.
The speaker spoke half an hour, ridi
culing tho charge of depression. The
new tariff law had collected almost
as much duty as had the Payne law
during a similar period, said Mr.
Clark, whilo ho characterized Mr.
Mann's speeches as part of a "repub
lican conspiracy against the pros
perity of tho country." Speaker Clark
was loudly cheored.
Tho roport of tho interstate com
merce commission was submitted to
congress December 19. It urgod the
necessity of action by tho govern
ment to provide groater safety for
travelers and asked that additional
powers be givon the commission In
tho matter of the construction and
operation of railroads, with super
vision ovor the issues of securities
and a moasure of control over capitalization.
pdsed as an incentive to further
settlement of inferior lands, and to
give future homesteaders compensa
tions that will terid to place them on
a" more even basis as compared with
tho earlier settlers who obtained
good lands.
The nominations of George Fred
Williams of Massachusetts, as min
ister to Greeco, and Mayor Brand
Whitlock of Toledo, O., as minister
to Belgium, were confirmed by the
senate.
According to statistics made pub
lic "by. the department of com"merce,
tho Chicago district in 1909 had 10,
202 manufacturing establishments,
which gave employment 'to an aver
ago of 393,859 persons, and paid
$226,G2G,916 in wages. The Chicago
district ranked second in 1909 among
all the metropolitan districts of the
United States in the value of i anu
facture'd products. It far exceeded
any of them in value of products of
Slaughtering and meat packing,
which was 23.1 per cent of the value
of products of all industries in the
district.
Postmaster Gonoral Burleson has
asked tho house postofllco committee
for an immediate emergency appro
priation of $1,000,000 to operate the
pcTrcjlppst until Juno 30. Of $1,000,
OO'O "appropriated "to bogln the new
s&te-ih, .ljfr. Burleson reported, that
aij&irfc$2000 had been spent by
Winter G, 1913.
..IflopXesentatlvo Sherley of Kentucky
Introduced a bill In tho house aur
tftcfrlzinY. an appropriation of' $500',
00.0 for the erection at Gettysburg, of
a memorial commemorating . the re
union of the union and confederate
veterans last "July.
A complete return to tho system of
giving away public lands in order to
encourage settlement and develop
ment has been proposed "to congress.
Senator Storling of South Dakota is
the author of . bill to return to tho
freo homestead system. Ho would,
wipe out, except in tho case of a com
mutation of a claim, the question of
appraised valuo, and in case of com
mutation fixes tho maximum price to
be exacted from tho homesteader at
$3.25 per acre. Tho return to the
system of freo homesloads is v pro-
Receipt at. tho treasury depart
ment of scores of informal applica
tions from all parts of tho country
has led Mr. McAdoo to believe that
thore can be no question now that a
large part of the national banks in
tend to come into the system created
by the new currency law. There are
abou.t 7,500 national banks in the
United States, and a rush of applica
tions followed the signing of the bill
by Prosident Wilson. Among the
first oi the national banks to advise
Secretary McAdoo of their intention
to accept the new law and enter the
new system was the National Shaw
mut bank of Boston, the larerest in
stitution in New England.
son introduced the resolution on his
own responsibility, and that it will
not go to congress as an administra
tion measure'.
Every American warship will here
after be a school ship, according to
an order promulgated by Secretary
of the. Navy Daniels, December 23.
Beginning January 1, 1914, and
thereafter, for an hour and a quarter
each day, every enlisted man on the
warships will be engaged in self-improvement
under the watchful eyes
of his commanding Officer. Commis
sioned, warrant and petty officials
"will be designated to act as peda
gogues. Every detail of the plan has
been worked out and tho order ex
presses the hope -that the men will
fully appreciate the zealous interest
of their officers so that there will be
increased efficiency in all practical
directions. The needs of the navy
will not be lost sight of in this at
tempt to give the men academic in
struction, for the order gives atten
tion to every possible detail of the
training of the enlisted men in mat
ters which will render them more
efficient in the military direction.
Postmaster General Burleson has
taken a stand against the proposal to
take assistant postmasters from the
protection of civil service, which is
embodied in the annual appropriation
bill' now in tho hands of the house
postofilce committee. Mr. Burleson
in a letter to Chairman Moon char
acterized such a plan as detrimental
to tho public service.
A joint resolution to conditionally
suspend tho operation of "the provi
sion of the Panama canal act grant
ing free passage to American coast
wise vessels was introduced Decem
ber 23 by Chairman Adamson of
Georgia, of tho house commerce com
mittee, The free toll provision is
now under diplomatic protest. It was
stated that Representative Adam-
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By a vote of 624 to 3, constituent
members of the chamber of com
merce of the United States in a refer
endum indorsed in the main the
plans of Secretary Redfield of the de
partment of commerce for .ore di
rect stimulation of commerce through
the bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce in his department. Secre
tary Redfield has asked congress for
$759,630. for use during the coming
year, about half of which will be ex
pended on the work of the commer
cial attaches and commercial agents
of the United States in foreign countries.
should be entitled tp an exemption of
$4,000 frdm the aggregate net in
co'ino of both, u ,
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The United States army got, through
1913 with only, two cases of typhoid
fever in tho enlisted strength of. more
than 81), 000 officers, and men. yjQne
was that of a man who had not 'been
Immunized with typhofiT vaccfri;and
was believed to have contracted? the
fever before he. ehlisted. The navy,
which .adopted the Vaccine later than
the army and did not make . itC use
compulsory, had among its 50,000
jackiejs only seven authentic cases of
typhoid in the year ending last June.
Four of these were treated at a re
mote tropical statoh where the. vaq
cine had deteriorated. Before, the re
sort of. immunization .typhoid-' cases
in . the i.army averaged about 3 ..per
,1,000 enlisted- strength, or 'inline
neighborhood of 250 cases per-Annum.
Secretary of State and' flrs.; Bryan,
following the example of their. prede
cessors, invited the entire diplomatic
corps to breakfast at noon on New
Year's day. The occasion brought
together representatives of some 30
different nations.
An increase of the corps of chap
lains in the navy to not less than one
for every 1,000 men is proposed in a
bill introduced in the house by Rep
resentative Farr of Pennsylvania. Mr.
Farr said that while the navy had
increased sixfold since 1841 the corps
of chaplains had not been increased.
Mrs. Pattie Lyle Collins, 65 years
old, the expert decipherer of the dead
letter office, was run down and killed
by a motor car. Because of her spe
cial work in handling Christmas mail
with incorrect addresses Mrs. Collins
was known in the postofilce depart
ment as "Mother Santa ClauB." She
had also been called "the blind
reader" from her ability to ascertain
the correct destination of letters and
packages incorrectly or illegibly ad
dressed. She was a native of Missis
sippi and had been in the government
service since 1879.
The world's production of gold fell
off $11,000,000 during the year 1913,
according to estimates made public
by George E. Roberts, director of the
mint. Most of this loss was due to
war and strikes, though about one
tenth of the decline may be attri
buted to the decline in the Australian .
gold output that has. been continuing .
for several years. The production .of
gold in the world in 1913 wa,V. worth
$455,000,000. The United States" fell
off about $5,000,000 in its prodiic-'
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Alaska's' mineral Output decreased'
$3,5"00,000 during '1013 as compared
with. 1912 figures. 'the territory's
total production was' valued at $18,
90.0,000 as against $22;537,38l in
1912. '
Representative Church of Cali-"
fornia introduced a bill which would .
declare It ! to be an,' offense against
the government foV any person to.
make or circulate false statements'
either verbally or in' .writing in re:
gard. to the financial condition of the
people and business'interests' of the
United States for the purpose of
bringing on a stringency in the
money market Of the country, gener
ally known 'as a' "money panic." 'The
bill would provide punishment for
each offense by a fine of $5,000 and'
imprisonment for not less than ten
years.
Dr. Romulo &. Naon, Argentine
minister to the United States, noti
fied the state and treasury depart
ments that his country had just
passed a law which would allow free
Importation of wheat and wheat pro
ducts from Argentine. Under the
new tariff law, Argentine was barred
from this duty-free -importation be
cause of a duty of 2 cents a pound,
which Argentine imposed on Ameri
can semolina. ThiB has been removed
by the Argentine congress.
Secretary of the Interior Lane
urged the immediate passage of a
law giving the president the right to
reserve to the United States govern
ment radium-bearing ores found any
where on the public lands.
Wireless New Year's greetings
from the naval towers at Arlington
were flashed to Europe, Panama and
tho Pacific coast.
Further regulations for the pay
ment of the income tax provide that
husband and wife, living together
The TenilhHonn (innirpaaomnn J
Wisconsin Representatives Lenroot,
vyuuyor, poison, atauora, Frear and
Esch voted for the passage .of the
currency bill.
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